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Marco da Silva Ferreira C A R C A Ç A

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Perth Festival acknowledges the Noongar people who continue to practise values, language, beliefs and knowledge on kwobidak boodjar. Noongar people remain the spiritual and cultural birdiyangara of this place and we honour and respect the caretakers and custodians and the vital role Noongar people play for our community and our Festival to flourish. We also acknowledge all First Nations people, whose contributions make our Festival culturally and artistically richer. Our hearts are happy that you are here, on the traditional lands of Whadjuk, part of the Bibbulmun nation and its people. Perth Festival Noongar Advisory Circle Roma Yibiyung Winmar, Vivienne Binyarn Hansen, Richard Walley, Carol Innes, Barry McGuire & Mitchella Waljin Hutchins

2 Show details

4 An Interview with the Choreographer

8 Credits

10 About Marco da Silva Ferreira

14 Acknowledgements

Marco da Silva Ferreira C A R C A Ç A Show details

PORTUGAL Australian exclusive Fri 7 – Sun 9 Feb

Heath Ledger Theatre, State Theatre Centre of WA Yandilup/Northbridge

Duration 75mins

Fri & Sat 7.30pm Sun 5pm

Audio description Sun 9 Feb Tactile tour Sun 9

Latecomers only admitted at a suitable break in the performance. Contains partial nudity.

Over the last decade I’ve been researching what is the place of dance nowadays. Why do we dance? And because my background is related to street dance and clubbing, what is the importance of community and dance as a social movement? C A R C A Ç A is a dance piece with 10 dancers and two musicians on stage where I tried to consider the place of dance nowadays, but also this construction of collective identity – how do we build culture? How do we accept the symbols that are identities of a certain region or nation? What is the meaning of traditions? Or heritage? And what do I do with all this? An Interview with Marco da Silva Ferreira

To answer this, I created this provocative place where clubbing dances and some street dance that I am very connected to (mostly Afro-American) were put in conversation with Portuguese folklore concepts. I felt the need to put my geographic identity in confrontation with this visual identity, these street dances and club dances that most of the time come via the internet. I think the basis of the work started from the questions: why do I know so little about the culture and the identity from the place that I live but I know so much from the outside? Where am I and where are those of my generation – what is our identity? What are we keeping as our culture and what are we passing to the next generations as collective identity?

I decided in this work I wanted to use a lot of formations that we could see in folklore dances, but in a way that was almost trying to understand these dances or question them – to think about them as spaces of organisation of a group but also of the deviation of a group. It's more like, how do we occupy this space and how do we make this space part of ourselves? Footwork is the basis of this piece. On the one hand I felt the drive of the jump – quite alive, quite bright – and it attracted me. And on the other hand, a lot of street and club dances are also vertical because you do it in a group, in the club, in a setting where you don't have a lot of space – so it's very vertical, it’s a lot of hopping. I want to try to understand what's the difference between this past body that is jumping with tradition, with symbols, with codes, with knowledge, and these contemporary bodies that are jumping, that are using similar footwork, similar rhythm, similar steps. Extract from a video interview with Marco da Silva Ferreira for The Rose International Dance Prize 2025, with thanks to Sadler's Wells Digital Stage.

Credits

Artistic Director & Choreographer Marco da Silva Ferreira

Co-Production Teatro Municipal do Porto, Centro Cultural de Belém, Big Pulse Dance Alliance, co-produced by New Baltic

Artistic Assistant Catarina Miranda Performers

André Speedy, Cácá Otto Reuss, Fábio Krayze, Marc Oliveras Casas, Marco da Silva Ferreira, Max Makowski, Mélanie Ferreira, Nelson Teunis, Nala Revlon Original Cast Leonor Ramos, Maria Antunes Sound Technician João Monteiro

Dance (Lithuania), Julidans (The Netherlands), Tanz im August/ HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Germany), Dublin Dance Festival (Ireland) and ONE Dance Week (Bulgaria), co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, centre chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie dans le cadre du dispositif Résidence d’artiste associé du ministère de la Culture, La briqueterie - CDCN du Val-de- Marne, Maison des arts de Créteil, KLAP- Maison pour la danse, CCN- Ballet National de Marseille, Charleroi danse, centre chorégraphique de Wallonie - Bruxelles, December Dance (Concertgebouw and Cultuurcentrum Brugge), La rose des vents – scène nationale Lille, Métropole – Villeneuve d’Ascq, TANDEM Scène Nationale Arras-Douai Supported by República Portuguesa – Cultura, DGARTES – Direção Geral das Artes

Lighting Designer & Technical Director Cárin Geada Lighting Technician Felipe Silva Music

João Pais Filipe (percusionist) & Luís Pestana (eletronic music)

Costume Designer Aleksandar Protic

Scenographer Emanuel Santos Anthropological Studies Teresa Fradique Portuguese Folk Dance Joana Lopes Production Director Mafalda Bastos Executive Producers Mafalda Bastos & Joana Costa Santos Production Structure P.ulso Diffusion Art Happens

Artistic Residencies A Oficina (Guimarães), Ballet National de Marseille,

Escola Superior de Dança (Lisbon), O Espaço do Tempo (Montemor-o- novo), Teatro Municipal do Porto

About Marco da Silva Ferreira Marco was born in 1986 and graduated in physiotherapy from Instituto Piaget, Gaia (2010), a career he never took up, but which focussed his studies on Health Sciences. From 1996 he concentrated his interest in body practices through sport, specifically high-performance swimming. In 2002 he abandoned this to focus on the performing arts. His path was self-taught through dance styles that flowed in an urban context, pop culture and clubbing connections – often with afro-descendant influences. Between 2002 and 2010 his focus and the language of his dance became increasingly diverse and closer to contemporary improvisation and composition. In 2010, he won the TV contest So You Think You Can Dance Portugal. Marco has been a professional dancer since 2008, performing the work of choreographers including André Mesquita, Hofesh Shechter, Sylvia Rijmer, Tiago Guedes, Victor Hugo Pontes and Paulo Ribeiro among others. As a choreographer Marco’s career highlights include HU(R)MANO (2013), which was included as part of the Aerowaves Priority Companies (2015) and was performed nationally and on the international circuit until 2018.

BROTHER (2016) consolidated Marco’s practice of seeking to explore and reflect on dance and its meaning today, creating connections with its origins and drawing a line made from the contemporary body. It premiered at Teatro Municipal do Porto- Rivoli and has toured extensively nationally and internationally, having also participated in Aerowaves Priority Companies in 2018. Bisonte (2019) is a performative identity that floats in an artificial space between hysteria and melancholy, playing with gender masks, power and fragility. Corpos De Baile (2020), choreographed for the Portuguese National Ballet Company, plays with the idea of personal identity inside a corps de ballet and ignited the research for C A R C A Ç A (2023). SIRI (2021) is a collaborative work with the Portuguese filmaker Jorge Jácome as part of the Foundation d’entreprise Hérmes - New Setting Program. This sci-fi dance piece featured light robots and humans dancing together. førma Inførma (2022) premiered with the South African Company Via Katlehong in Julidans fesHval. This dance piece crosses pantsula dance with other street dances staking a ritual of claim – space, time and presence.

Fantasie Minor (2022), created for Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen en Normandie, is a duet for two young dancers based set to Schubert’s Fantasy for Piano 4 Hands in F Minor. C A R C A Ç A (2023), which thinks about collective identity, cultural preservation and transformation, was one of the projects chosen to integrate Big Pulse Dance Alliance. It was one of four pieces shortlisted for the inaugural Rose International Dance Prize, a brand-new biennial prize for original dance creations in any style from across the globe. In 2024 Marco choreographed a folia (2024) for Ballet de Lorraine. It is based on a musical composition from 15th century Portugal. Marco has previously been associate artist at Teatro Municipal do Porto (2018 – 19), Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen en Normandie (2019 – 21) and is currently at Maison de la Danse - Lyon (2023 – 25).

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